Sector field mass spectrometers in ICP-MS
Abstract
A new generation of sector field mass spectrometers, with improved analytical figures of merit at even lower prices, is commercially available, giving a strong impetus to the development of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) sector field instrument applications in the analytical community. It is the aim of this paper to give an overview of these instruments, to introduce some basic concepts, to discuss their peculiarities and performance, and to present some selected examples of analytical applications to demonstrate the `state of the art'.
- Publication:
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Spectrochimica Acta
- Pub Date:
- November 1998
- DOI:
- 10.1016/S0584-8547(98)00222-5
- Bibcode:
- 1998AcSpe..53.1739J